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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1901. \ N = JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, Aeiress AU Communications te W. 3. LEAKE, Nasager. MANAGER'S OFFICE........Telephone Press 204 PUBLICATION OFFICE. . .Market and Third, 8. ¥, Telephone Press 201. ;i EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevensom St Telep! e Press Delivered hy Carriers, 16 Cents Per Week. . Singie Coples, § Centn, Terms by Mail, Including TFostage: DAILY CALL Oncluding Sunday). one yeer. DAILY CALL Oscluding furday), ¢ month: DAILY CALL (including Funday), 3 :.onths, DAILY CALL—By Single Mont! All pestmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwaried when requested. Mafl wubecribers In orfering change of mddress should be partieular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to imeure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. OAKLAND OFFICE. . ©e2..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Mazage: Yoreign Advertising, Marguetts Building, Ohicage. t(Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619.”) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON. . .Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPEEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Bullding ARl K CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. O. News Co.;. Great Northern Hotel; Fremon: House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hoetel; A. Brentano, 31 Usaion Square: Murray HWl Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., X. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—G2T Montgomery, corner of Clay, opea ontfl 92 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 63 cAllirter, open until $:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin, open until # o'clock. 1841 Misston, open urtil 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, cormer Sixteenth, open untll § o'clock. 1086 Valencta, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'ciock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 200 Fillmore. opea untl § p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Oolumbia—"Florodora."” Orpheum_Vandeville, Oalifornia—""Rudoiph and Adoiph.” Tivoli—"‘Cavalleria” and ‘I Pagliaccl.” Grand Opera-house—"The Little Miniater." Alcazar—""The Girl in the Barracks.™ Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudeville every afterroon an evening Fincher's—Vandeviile. Alhambra—Royal Italian Band. HNI's Theater—Vaudevilie. Recreation Park—Baseball. Sutro Baths—~Open nights. AUCTION SALES. By Occidental Horse Exchange—This day, carload of Horses, at 721 Howard street. AN INDIGNANT CRITIC. T is well when one can be amused by criticism. I We zre amused by the indignation of a critic who writes in the Willows Journal. We had occasion to call attention to the subjunctive condemnation of anarchy indulged in by Mr. Bryan. He sought for its cause in conditions in this Govern- ment and raised his usual voice of warning to its usual height in demanding that such- conditions be changed and reformed as a means of getting rid of anarchy. This position we deprecated. All who have studied the principles of the anarchists know that they find the justification for their crimes in the existence of government itself. To them the Russian autoc- racy and the American republic are equally offensive and deserving of destruction better the form of government and the more equal its pressure upon all its people the more offensive is it to anarchists, since it may be taken to prove that government can exist in conformity to all human | rights. Mr. Bryan, then, is obviously mistaken in assuming that any existing social conditions, or any that can exist, under this Government cause anarchy or are needed to justify it to itself. Speaking not of par- ties in this country but of the whole people, we said that Mr. Bryan's statement of conditions appealed “only to the idle. thriftless and criminal minority,” whereupon our Willows critic bursts into an eczema of indignation and accuses us of being “a firebrand,” of “hating the Ten Commandments,” and going a-raking “in the lowest heil.” The Willows man should not write when the north wind blows—it makes him too nervous. He should keep his intellect in cold storage and not injure his digestion by frothing away all of his saliva. That the wind changed before he finished or a subscriber paid up with a load of squashes is evident, for he | apologizes for using such incendiary parts of speech, still insisting that he borrowed them from our vocabulary! We really beg of him to correct this. ‘We do not keep “‘gangrene,” “firebrand,” “beslimes,” “the lowest hell,” “filthiest demons” and “slimy vomit” in stock, and so could not have loaned them to him for use on that highly interesting occasion when he sat down to express his opinion. We will be greatly relieved if any one who has lost that job lot of hard and off-color words and phrases will as- sert ownership and claim- them, that we may no longer rest under the suspicion of having enlivened Willows journalism by renting them out to this un- wise man who talks vain knowledge and fills him- self with the north wind. Here's a Texas story: Governor Hogg started from his home to go to New York, but missed a train at Beaumont and had to wait a day. While waiting he became interested in oil stock and gave up his trip to attend to business. Having now made a fortune he proposes to finish his trip. It is only in Texas where you can miss a train and make a mil- lion before you take the next train. A literary anecdote is going the rounds to the ef- fect that the German novelist, Spielhagen, once told a friend he could recollect vividly every one of the thousands of persons he had met ig his life and every word spoken by casual acquaintaries, together with their gestures and the cut of their hair and clothes. It would scem that Spiclhagen deserves a monument as the greatest liar of the century. William Jennings Bryan has urged President Roosevelt not to seek for the renomination to the Presidency, as one term is enough for any one. This is another piece of gratuitous advice on a subject with which M{ Bryan is as usual unfamiliar. Whitecaps near an Ohio village are said to be poisoning the fruit of orchards in order to purchase the land cheaply. This ought to suggest to the fruit- growers an excellent opportunity to decorate their trees and furnish food for the crows. Indeed, the milder and | ! MISPLACED SYMPATHY. i e | | Tmcnt that several thousand sympathetic letters have been received there for the assassin, i Czolgosz, and a large number of express packages containing presents of flowers and fruit. The War- den says it would be a matter of surprise ii the names of many of these correspondents and gift-senders should be made public. The pubiication of their action is sufficiently sur- ising to the country. No one objects to any effort | intended to rehumanize the assassin in his last days by offering a chance to repent thfough the softening | processes dictated by religion. But there is a great | distance between this and the sensual satisfactions implied in the gifts of flowers and dainties. It is known: that such attentions to a pervert like this assassin are always misconstrued. They are taken as evidence of his importance in the world and feed that vanity which exhibits him to himself as a hero who has done a great deed and made for himself an immortal fame. Instead of having a rehumanizing effect they produce its opposite, and rather than inducing a soft and repeatant mood they confirm the murderous dis- position which led to his crime. We know of no instance in which such a degen- crate has been in any way reformed for a better life, or prepared, in a Christian sense, for the death which awaited him, bysuch misplaced sympathy. To a certain order of minds crime seems to present itself as a rea- | son for the bestowment of attentions which are not given to the innocent, no matter how suffering nor how worthy. The sympathetic people who are un- regulated by common sense immediately invest the criminal with a glamour of romance and offer atten- tions which are almest invariably misconstrued. It is quite a shock that such people have gone to the extent of trying to pander to the abnormal seli- esteem and self-approval of the miserable murderer of the President, and the country heartily approves | the action of the Auburn Warden in arresting their | misplaced attentions, so that they are not bestowed upon their unworthy object. | In another view of it such exhibitions of addle- pated sympathy are extremely harmful. If they af- fected only the people who indulge them and the in- %tmdcd recipient public feeling might stop at mere ex- | pressions of disapproval and disgust. But they go far beyond this. They appeal to the perverted class to which this assassin belongs. Every cne who is like him takes such things as an expression of ap- roval of the crime he committed, and an affirmation | of the principles that he attempted to promote by | murder. We do not hesitate to say that the thou- sands of maudlin letter writers and senders of dain- | ties to the assassin have done as much thereby to | promote anarchy and murder as all of the open | anarchist propaganda put together. They deserve cxposure. Their names should be published as a proper punishment of their folly and to deter other fools from repeating the exhibition. We are aware tha: sentimentalists may accuse us of decrying the carrying of consolation to the guilty, who needs it the more in proportion to the great- ness of his guilt. But as we understand the plan and teachings of religion these fleshly satisfactions are not listed among the ways that are taken to minister to | that spiritual change which religion seeks to work in the criminal and the guilty. These ways may be used without offense by thcse who minister them, and without in any way encouraging in others the crim- inal tendency which may inflict further wrongs upon saciety. It seems to us that the distinction should be plain to a-healthy mind, and that it is clear to a vast ma- jority of the American people is evidence that the normal mind, the sober mind, prevails in this country and makes up that wholesome public opinion which condemns assassination and despises those who make a business of coddling assassins. T —————— | Sir Thomas Lipton is not to be permitted to chal- lenge the America's cup with the same boat next year. He has therefore ample time to get over his disappointment and make up his mind whether he will wait two years to give Shamrock II another | chance or build another boat. t . | - { A NEEDED REFORM. ECRETARY GAGE in his address to the S American Bankers’ Association at Milwaukee reminded the country once more of the need of | reforming our monetary system. The Secretary is reported to have said: “There is too close an inti- macy between the Government’s finances and our commercial affairs, though it is a comfort to note that at the present moment the injurious effect of such an intimacy appears to be at a minimum.” The time when an evil is at its minimum is the best time in the world to remedy it. At the present time the people are enjoying an unsurpassed prosperity and the Government has in its treasury more money than it knows what to do.with. A recent report from Washington says that including the redemption fund of $150,000,000 there is now in the treasury a stock of gold in excess of $350,000,000; that the surplus is increasing at a rate which promises to show for the year an excess of receipts over expenditures of more than $70,000,000, notwithstanding the reduction of the internal revenue taxes, and that upward of $10o,- 000,000 has been turned into. Government deposi- ‘tories in order that it may be used in the channels of trade instead of remaining locked up in the treasury. Such amount of money on hand would énable the Secretary to effect any well devised remedy for the evils of our currency system without in any way dis- turbing business even for a moment. The Secretary in his address recommended that the demand liab s.of the Government, known as legal tender notes, be retired and canceled; that the bank note circulation be so modified as to make it respon- sive to commercial and industrial needs; that beyond acting as the guardian for the people in relation to national banks the Government guaranty to bank note issues should cease; that public moneys in ex- cess of a reasonable working balance should be de- posited in national banks; that in periods of na- tional peace and prosperity the public revenue should be in excess of expenditure, the surplus to be ap- plied to the reduction of the national debt. That the Se_cretzry will have strong support in his efforts to bring about the desired improvements in our monetary system is not to be doubted. There s already a widespread sentiment in favor of the retire- ment of greenbacks. A short time ago 'Mr. Fowler of New Jersey, who is expected to be chairman of the Committee on Banking of the House, was reported to have declared in favor of a plan to get rid of from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 of greenbacks outright without replacing them by any ot}‘er class of money. As an alternative plan he suggested taking from the available cash in the treasury about $100,000,000, which he believes could be spared, place that amount in the reserve fund of the treasury, and then as a like amount of United States notes came in cancel them | and issue gold certificates against the additional gold lplacefl in the reserve. He would continue the policy HE Warden of Auburn prison makes the state- | | until there were no longer any outstanding demand | obligations against the treasury. While the financiers of the country are discussing the best means of making use of this favorable oppor- tunity to put our currency system on a sound basis !there is another set of statesmen who are meditating ! quite other schemes concerning the public money. They perceive nothing in the situation but a surplus, | and are preparing to make an effort to rake it with an appropriation bill. It is certain that large expendi- tures will be advocated in all sorts of buncombe bills this winter, for the surplus is a great temptation. The intelligence of the country, however, is on the side of those who believe in acting now for the pur- pose of establishing a safe currency and ridding the Government of its too close relations with commerce. As Secretary Gage said: “Looked at from the stand- point of true statesmanship it would appear that the present is the most propitious hour in all our history, and as favorable as any period we may hope for in the future, to enter upon reasonable and judicious measures to eliminate all elements of financial weak- ness which experience has brought to light, and to perfect our now faulty system of currency.” The residents of a New Jersey village are firmly convinced that a ghost is enjoying itself running a sawmill, much to their disgust. Perhaps a change in the brand of the village whisky might work as a remedy. F the larger cities of the East urge the import- ance of creating a Department of Commerce, with a Cabinet officer at its head, it appears evident there will be a strong effort made to bring it about at the coming session of Congress. The subject is not a new one, and the public is familiar with the arguments for it. In fact the proposed department was indorsed by the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia, and accordingly it has a rightful claim upon the attention of the Government. While the arguments which the great commercial States of the Union are thus putting forth for the Department of Commerce are valid they are not more so than are those which have been repeatedly urged by Western men in favor of creating a Depart- ment of Mines and Mir}ing. The two movements therefore might well be taken up together. If both be supported by the iriends of each the chances of | success will be much greater than if each be left to stand alone. The nation has beer slow in establishing depart- ments for the better administration of its expanding business. Under the Presidency of Washington there were but four departments—those of the State, the Treasury, War and Law. During the admin- istration of John Adams it was found necessary to separate the management of the navy from that of the army, and accordingly the Navy Department was established. No further addition was made until the Presidency of Jackson, when the Postmaster Genéral was raised to a seat in the Cabinet. The Department of the Interior was found necessary dur- ing the administration of Tyler, the first Secretary of that department being appointed in 1849; and it was Inot until 1889 that the great and growing agricul- tural interests of the country were given representa- tion in the executive branch of the Government by the creation of the Department of Agriculture. It requires no argument to show intelligent men that as the nation advances in population and in wealth and becomes more and more complex in its industries there must arise from time to time the need for further divisicns of the vast work of admin- istration. Our commerce has now reached such pro- | portions that it is absurd to leave its affairs divided between the State Department, the Agricultural De- partment and the Treasury, holding a subordinate po- | sition in each. If the work now done by the Bureau | of Statistics of the Treasury Department and that of the similar bureau in the Agricultural Department and the Bureau of Foreign Commerce in the State Department were concentrated under one control and expanded so as to meet the needs of the country it would amply justify the placing of a Cabinet officer at the head of it. Governmental work in relation to mines and min- ing is at present even more scattered than the work done for commerce. The mining men have repeated- ly pointed out that in order to get information which the Government has to bestow they have at times to e NEW CABINET OFFICERS. ROM -the frequency with which the press of something else there is no central authority to bring all the mining affairs of the Government into har- that prevails there results not only something of in- efficiency in the Governmental supervision of mining rections. It is to be hoped the mining men will be able to that of the commercial men. There is no reason why the two departments should not be created at should therefore have both of them. P e — THE BANKRUPT LAW, I pass a general bankrupt law that shall have equal application to all the States and safeguard Without such general statute of bankruptcy the varying statutes of the States must be appealed to, is so largely interstate that the credits necessary to its operation become interstate credits. Foreseeing provided for an interstzte bankrupt law. 1t is claimed by the credit men of the country that end to chattel mortgage failures and fake confessions of judgment, has made preferences rare if not impos- tates in the hands of trustees chosen by the creditors and not by the debtor, has increased dividends and tracting credit has made the creditor more secure. All these effects having appeared in the administra- should remain as a permanent means of protecting the rights of creditors, giving them share and share charging the insolvent debtor and enabling him by enterprise to restore his lost fortune. ence on State statutes would be a mistake, injurious alike to insolvents and their creditors and to the busi- while one has authority in one thing and another in mony and consistency. By reason of the confusion matters but an absolute waste and loss in many di- present their case at Washington as stroagly as is the same time. The nation needs both of them and HE constitution gives Congress the power to business by that very equality of operation. and they are deficient in effectiveness. Our commerce these conditions, the makers of the constitution wisely the existing bankrupt law passed in 1898 has put an sible, has put the administration of bankrupt es- reduced the cost of administration and without con- tion of the law, it should not be repealed, but alike in a bankrupt estate, and as a means of dis- To repeal the law and return to uncertain depend- niess of the count Among the first contributors to the ransom for Miss Stone was Minister Wu, but it will be remem- bered that he did not contribute anything to aid American missionaries endangered by the Boxer riots in China, run from bureau to bureau, only to find at last that | BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN TO POSE IN LONDON diord o5 i = UROPE is to have an opportunity of criticizing the beauty and ac- complishments of Miss Evelyn Nes- bit, to whom fame first came in Philadelphia not more than a year ago. Artists have limned her features &nd graces and pronounced her one of the foremost beauties of the country. Now she is going to London, where a principal part in a new production at ‘the Gaiety Theater has been offered her and where she will pose before Royal Academy artiste, wko have been posted upon Miss Nesbit's worth as a model by their Amer- ican brethren. Ryland W. Phillips, the artist photographer of Philadelphia, dis- covered her. Ske posed before his camera | and straightway there was developed the reigning model of the artistic world, com- bining rare beauty of face with consum- mate grace of attitude and expression. In New York famous artists, among them Carroll Beckwith, Irving Wiles, F. S. Church and Carl Blenner, have drawn PERSONAL MENTION. J. J. Cunningham, a prominent mer- chant of Vallejo, is at the Grand. Governor Gage returned from Sacra- mento yesterdayv and is at the Palace. James M. Neil, owner of the street car system of Santa Cruz, s at the Palace. C. W. Parsons, an English newspaper writer, is in the city en route to Austra- Ha. 0. H. Harrisoa, a coffee planter of Mex- wife. D. P. Spagnoli, a mining man of Ama- | dor Coufity, is among the arrivals at the Grand. The Rev. W. A. Brewer, principal of the San Mateo Military Academy, is at | the Palace. John M. Horn arrived ‘from Dawson vesterday and has made his headquarters at the Grand. Chevalier de Freystadster of Budapest is at the Palace. { and will sail from here for the Orient. Ex-Chief of Police I. W. Lees, who was confined to his home for several wecks by an attack of gastric fever, has so far recovered as to be able to be out again. W. Murfin, cne of the largest share- | bolders of the Midland Railway of Eng- lard, returned to this city yesterday and is at present staying at the California with his son, H. H. Murfin. Californians in New York. | . NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—The following Californians have arrived: San Francisco —F. Zimmerman, at the Marlborough; D. Kline and wife, at the Netherland; J. Naphtalie and wife, S. M. Rosenbaum, at the Savoy; H. D. Walters, at the Navarre; Miss Connery, at the Metropolitan; J. D. French, at the New Amsterdam; R. L. Knapp and wife, at the Criterion; C. Reed and wife, B. 8. Dgan and wife, J. Dubois, at the St. Denis; Miss Bishop, J. L. Has- kell, at the Gilsey; Captain W. C. Coul- son, at the Grand; W. D. McCann, at the Holland; J. A. Orr, at the Broadway Cen- tral; G. Busch, at the Cadillac; Mrs. H. 8. Jackson, Mrs. M. H. Lawrence, at the Kensington; O. S. Levy, F. McMahon, at the Herald Square; M. McDevitt, at the St. George; S. Merrill, at the Hoffman; G. Napier and wife, at the Cosmopolitan. Los Angeles—W. W. Beckett, at the Park Avenue; H. Hellman and wife, at the Savoy; J. Desham, at the Navarre; J. Thomas, at the Astor; G. Borden, at the Marbattan; W. L, Stewart, at the Her- ald Square; W. Banning, Mrs. H. Ban- ning, Miss Brown, at the Gilsey. Sacramento—A. Mustic, at the Ross- more. e g o | Californians in Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: Raleigh—W. D. Gould, Los Angeles: Na- tional—C. H. Phillips Jr., San Francisco: Metropolitan—W, Frank Plerce and wife, San Francisco; St. James—J. W. Wilson, Redlands. Russian Carnegie. So much news that makes painful read- ing comes from Russia that it is always a pleasure to learn of those noble or gen- erous acts which reveal the brighter side of the Muscovite character and help us to remember that the country is, after all, a part of Europe. The latest is a very munificent bequest for philanthropic pur- poses, which, had it been given in any other civilized country but Russia, would soon have become a topic of worldwide comment. But a generous deed from a Russian to Russia remains almost un- noticed outside the realms of the Czar. Gawril 8zlodownikow, who was a man of great culture and who occupied a position similar in character to that of an Eng- lish Privy Councillor, left recently a sum of about £1,800,000, of which one part is to be devoted to the erection of high schools in Moscow where girls will obtain the necessary classical education to qual- ify them for a university career, while the remainder is to be spent in equal parts on the establishment of schools for me- chanical training (for both sexes), and on the construction, in densely populated parts of the city, of large hotels—if such they may be termed—for the use of the better clasdes of workingmen. —— < SUMMER RATES at Hotel del C Cororado Beach, Cal., effective after April 15; $60 for round trip, including 15 days at hotel. Pacific Coast S. 8, Co., 4 New Montgomery st, ico, is at the Palace, accompanied by his | He is touring the world | k= MISS EVELYN NESBIT, PHIL- ADELPHIA MODEL, WHO IS GOING TO LONDON. | & —% her. Her father was a prominent lawyer of Pittsburg, who died several years ago. R e e o e e i e 2 o o Y ) A CHANCE TO SMILE. Poor Human Nature—Do you see the | man? The man has just sat down violently on the sidewalk. What caused him to sit down? He stepped on a plece of orange peel. He has just risen up. He looks at the orange peel and mut- ters something under his breath. Dces he kick the piece of orange peel | into the street? He does not. He leaves it there ‘or somebody else to step on, my dears.—Chi- cago Tribune, The Main Attraction—What sort of place | gi\'e’ you found in the country? Good ‘Worst I ever tried.” “Good table?” “Abominable.” i “Prices low? 4 “Ridiculously high.” “Then why do you stay there?” “Because they've got the best golf links in the country!”"—Cleveland Plain Deaier. “Sir,” said the drug clerk in a prohibi- tlon town, “I may not sell you whisky except for medical or mechanical ur- pos;s. and you do not look il ¥ “No,” replied the customer, “I am rot 111, but T e come within the law of right, for I drink mechanically.”—Pittsburg Chroni- cle-Telegraph. The Tramp (between mouthfuls)—I wuz wunst a welt'y married man, mum, but I am penniless now. Kind Lady—You poor unfortunate man! | Why didn’t you put Your fortune in your wife’s name? The Tramp—I did—an’ she learned ter play bridge whist.—Puck. ‘“Why have they got a ‘Pull’ on the door of this public institution?" asked one visi- tor of another. “Why, you need a pull to get of course,” answered the other. “Then does the word ‘Push’ on the in- side mean that you are in the push when you get there?” “No; it means if the fellow inside don’t want you, they'll push you out.”—Pitts- burg Chronicle-Telegraph. —_———— Guarding the Sultan. Once when the Prince of Samos was re- tiring from an audience he stumbled in his backward cteps and fell. In a mo- ment the Sultan had pressed a spring be- hind him. The wall opened and he van- ished within, safe from the suspected at- tack. Abrupt gestures in his presence often cost dear. Several victims are men- tioned, one a gardener in the royal park, whom Abdul shot dead for rising too quickly to an attitude of respect. Another time he found the child of a palace do- mestic playing with his mislaid revolver, and he had her tortured in the hope of revealing a plot. His magnificent Yildiz is a monument to fear. It is assassin proof, bomb proof. Architects and engineers are building and rebuilding incessantly. Some new secret retreat is always under way. The entire domain is surrounded by an immense wall thirty feet high, and the choicest troops of the empire stand guard around it. An Inner wall twelve feet thick, with gates of iron, Incloses the private resj. dence itself. The walls of his own dwell- ing are filled with armor plate, in case of projectiles. It is said that a mysterious passage, connects with ten secret bed chambers, forming an intricate labyrinth, No one but his body attendant knows where the Sultan may sleep during any particular night. He has electric lights and telephones in his own apartments, but forbids them in Constantinople. Tele. phones might prove handy for conspira. tors, and he believes that a dynam!te cartridge could be sent over 3 wire into the palace. He fears electric explosions, so Conatantinople still gets atong with gaslight. g in, —_—— . MRS. PIPER HAS WITH- DRAWN FROM THE S0- CIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH! Read her confession in NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. -}.—-————-—N* SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS QUO VADIS—R. C. A, City. "?uo Vadis” means “Whither goest thou™? TAFFY—Subscriber, City. Taffy as ap- plied to a Welshman is simply Davy pro- nounced with aspiration. David is th most common Welsh hame and Davy is the abbreviation thereof. CAPO D’ASTRO—G. W., Nevada. Cago d’astro is but little used in connection Witk the guitar at this time. Its purpose is to change the tone, making it sharper according to ine fret the selection c for. REGRETS—W. B. B., City. The rules of etiquette do not requive that regrets should be sent in reply to cards for a reception after a wedding. It is onl necessary to send’ cards to the placa where the function is held, during the hours of the reception. WORMS ON ROSES—Enq. City. To get rid of werms on rose bushes use to- bacco water, made by steeping over mig™ a packet of strong smoking tobacce in a gallon of water. Spray the affected bush several times with this water and then gently shake the bush, when the worms or insects will fall VACANT PUBLIC LAND—C. M., May- fiela, Cal. There is vacant public land the following States and Territories ti is subject to entry and settlement: Ala- bama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colo- rado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missou= ri, Mont#na, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oreg South Dakota, Utah, Washington, W consin and Wyoming. Application must | be made at the United States land offices in the several States. GRASS WIDOW-W,, Efforts have been made to trace the origin of “grass widow” as applied in modern times to a woman who is living apart from her husband, but not divorced from him. Its use has been traced back to the Calcutta Review of 1344, but it is believed that it gces beyond date and that it is a corruption of “grace widow,” which is derived from “vidua de gratia,” an old Latin term to signify “a widow by favor.” EGGS IN SALT-C. L., Ross Station, Cal. It Is said that eggs may be pre- served in salt for an indefinite period. The following recipe is given: “Place fine dry salt in a box an inch deep, set fresh eggs in this, small end down, so as not to touch each other. When this layer is completed cover with the same kind of salt deep enough so that another layer can be set as before, and so on until the box is full and there is at least an inch of salt on the uppermost layer. The box must be kept in a cool, dry place.” DESERTERS—T. L. B., City. The law relative to desertion is that “no person shall be tried or punished by court-mar- tial for desertion in time of peace, and not in the face of the enemy, committed more than two years before the arraign- ment of such person for such offense, unless he shall meanwhile have absent- ed himself from the United States, in which case the time of his absence shall be excluded in computing the period of limitation; provided that said limitation shall not begain until the end of the term for which the aceused was mustered into service.” Oakland, Cal. ‘Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. ¢ —_——— Choice candies. Townsend's, Palace Hotei® et Cal. Glace fruft 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* ———e—————— Towrsend’s California glace fruits, 50c a pound. in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- kets. A nice present for Eastern friends. 539 Market street, Palace Hotel building.® RSl 20 S il i Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_— ADVERTISEMENTS. STATEMENT ~—OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS ~—OF THE—— HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, F HARTFORD, IN THE STATE OF CON- necticut, on the 3lst day of December, A. D. 190, and for the year ending on that day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 11 of the Politi- cal Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. ASSETS. Real Estate owned by Company..... $801,500 00 Loans on Bonds and Mortgages. 57,700 00 Cash Market Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Company........... 7,178,654 35 Amount of Loans secured by pledge of Bonds, Stocks and other market. able securities as collateral 7,800 00 Cash in Company's Office. 128,251 32 Cash in Banks.. 730,818 50 Interest due and accrued on all Stocks and Loans... 5333 Interest due and accrued on Bond: and Mortgages . 24,502 19 Premiums In du tion 1,238,541 52 Res 1,469 69 Due from other Compai insurance on losses already paid. Total Assets LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and unpaid $232.622 44 sses in process of Adjusf in Suspense .. 367,639 82 Losses resisted, including expenses. 34,868 14 Gross premiums on Fire Risks run- ning one year or less. §4,917.455 It reinsurance 50 per cent ... Gross premiums on Fire Risks ru: ning more than one year, $6,022, 2,458,727 38 867 05; reinsurance pro yatar. Commissions and Brokerage s to become due 300 00 48,206, 195 12 INCOME. Net cash actually received for Fire premiums ... Received for inte Mortgages ... Recelved for_interest and df on Bonds, Stock all other ‘sources . Received for Rents $6,684, 748 38 61,660 04 on Bonds and Total Income ..... EXPENDIT! S, Net amount paid for Fire Losses (in- cluding $6 ous years) Dividends to Pald or allowed for Commission Brokerage ... 1,163,857 81 Paid for Salaries, Fees and other charges for officers, clerks, ete Paid for S N %) taxes . All other pa Total Expenditures ... Losses incurred during the year. Risks and Premiums.| Fire Risks. | Premiuma, Net nmount of Risks| } written during mflm‘ | year ...... -1 $705,252,502 | B Net amount of Risks| T | MHEIR 51 expirad during the | PO .ccasrncasvscies 7 34 Net amount in fores| j o= December 31, 1900. 10,540,322 21 GEO. L. CHASE, Prosident. . C. ROYCE, Secre Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 4n ibseri! day of January, 1901 DANIEL ' J. GLAZIER, Notary Public. Pacific Department, 313 California St., San Francisco. Henry K. Belden, Ma er. ‘Whitney Pa’ache, !J:t. Mnn:egr. 4